Yesterday, I posted the Mom Goes Green family opinion for our “Rate the Rolls” Challenge. We tried two brands of 100% recycled content toilet paper (bath tissue!). One was White Cloud’s GreenEarth, the other was the leading competitor, but we didn’t know which one was which. Today we got the results…
So, did we pick GreenEarth? Drumroll, pleeeeze… we did! They’ve won us over… and, ironically the other brand was Seventh Generation and that is the brand that my husband nixed when I tried to make the first switcheroo! Fortunately I have his blessing to begin buying GreenEarth (woohoo!) and buying recycled is really important to me. In fact, if every U.S. household replaced just one 500-sheet roll of regular TP with one recycled roll, it would save nearly 423,900 trees annually. Now, that’s a big deal!
I also now know that while both brands are 100% recycled, White Cloud GreenEarth is always made from 100% post consumer fibers, while Seventh Generation only promises 80% post consumer. Another big bonus in my book!
I hope you’ll take the challenge too and just give it a try. For now, GreenEarth is available exclusively at Walmart, and you can save some “green” by downloading the coupon below!
If you give it a try, let me know what YOU think. Now click, print, buy and… well, you can handle the rest of it!
(Disclosure: I am a White Cloud blogger. While I am compensated for my time, my opinions are entirely my own. White Cloud neither directs nor edits my posts, comments, views or opinions.)
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Hi Doreen! Great reviews on toilet paper! I know it is a little late in the game, however, I wanted to bring up the fact that there are tree-free alternatives that may be even greener. Bum Boosa Bamboo Bathroom Tissue is 100% bamboo made by the thermo-mechanical method of pulping paper. It is elemental chlorine free, 3 ply, and very smooth. It comes in a 100% recycled cardboard box rather than the typical plastic package. I developed this t.p. after reading a reserach study out of Dresden University last year that found a connection between BPAs in our ground water to recycled content bathroom tissue. BPAs are showing up in tap water because recycled paper contains elements of plastic due to the recycling process. This is largely due to the thermal glossy paper (think credit card receipts) not being separated out before thrown into the vat. This is okay for all other recycled paper purposes, but not for tissue that will eventually be flushed down the toilet! This is such a new finding, not many people know about it. Please consider bamboo as a sustainable and renewable alternative in tissue, as it does not need to be recycled because of how incredibly FAST it grows. Please check us out for more info! http://www.bumboosa.com We are Moms on a Mission to alleviate the burden trees have and also help keep our water clean!
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